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10 cited in alleged deer-poaching activity
SALINE– Wildlife agents have cited 10 persons with alleged poaching activity that killed at least 15 deer. The violations occurred from December 2011 through February 2012 in Webster and Bienville ...
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Five teens charged in cyberbullying, battery case
PORT BARRE – Four teenagers, one a juvenile, are charged with the cyberbulling of a Port Barre boy. A fifth teen is accused of battery. Police say the youth was attacked on two days while at school...
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St. Landry board rejects school budget cuts on tie vote
Dist. 6 member Ronald Carrier tried to get a vote early in the raucous St. Landry School Board meeting on Thursday. He was ruled out of procedural order and when he subsequently had to leave, budge...
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Woman returns home to find smouldering ruins of home, estranged husband a suspect
ABBEVILLE – When Jessica Sonnier left her house Thursday night with her five-old-son because her estranged husband was in her house, she did not expect to return the next morning and see her house ...
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Consultants say merge La. Tech and LSU-Shreveport (and pigs might fly)
SHREVEPORT – Consultants recommend consolidating Louisiana Tech University and LSU-Shreveport to improve educational opportunities to the underserved in northwest Louisiana. The report by Virginia-...
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Man accused of lewd acts with a grandchild arrested at airport
PORT BARRE – A man accused of child molestation was nabbed Thursday as he prepared to board an airplane in Lafayette. Police said Richard Spears is accused for engaging in lewd acts with one of his...
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Body of driver recovered from Bayou Teche
LEONVILLE – State Police suspect impairment as a factor in the case of a man who drove into Bayou Teche on Wednesday night. Joseph Charles, Jr., 36, of Opelousas ran a stop sign at La. 103 and Chur...
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Her disguise, and her gun, got bank employees' attention
KINDER – Authorities continue their search for a woman who robbed a bank here Monday, though she won't look like she did in the bank lobby. On Monday, at approximately 12:20 p.m., the Iberia Bank l...
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Woman sitting in road after being in accident struck, killed vehicle
IBERIA PARISH - A woman sitting in the highway after an earlier accident was struck and killed early Wednesday on U.S. 90. State Police said Moneshia Eligwe, 24, of Jeanerette died in the accident ...
Feb 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jindal cuts ribbon on new state Veterans Cemetery, announces two legislative initiatives
LEESVILLE – Governor Bobby Jindal spoke at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday for the new Central Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Leesville where he announced two proposals he will pursue in the up...
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No butts about it - Acadia jury bans smoking on courthouse grounds
CROWLEY – The Acadia Parish Police Jury has had enough of butts at the courthouse. The jury on Tuesday night voted to ban, as early as March 1, smoking anywhere on the Courthouse Circle. The issue ...
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Victim rights trump public's - St. Landry judges restrict sex-crime case info
St. Landry Parish judges have ordered very limited access to criminal files involving sex crime charges, barring the general public from information and documents generally available in all other c...
Feb 15, 2012 | 0 0 comments | 16 16 recommendations | email to a friend
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